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The continuing appeal of novelist Rachel Ingalls
2.11.19
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(1 of 9) Typography instructor Herbert Bayer’s design for a cinema (c. 1924-1925) is a stark contrast to the elaborate theaters of the 1920s.
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Michele Forman (center) and her students filmed at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, for a project to raise awareness about the history of lynching.
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Michele Forman ’93 offers her UAB film students technical competency and ethical context.
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(1 of 9) Typography instructor Herbert Bayer’s design for a cinema (c. 1924-1925) is a stark contrast to the elaborate theaters of the 1920s.
Image courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums and Busch-Reisinger Museum, ©President and Fellows of Harvard College
Exploring the Bauhaus and Harvard
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Arts
The continuing appeal of novelist Rachel Ingalls
2.11.19
Michele Forman (center) and her students filmed at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, for a project to raise awareness about the history of lynching.
Photograph by Kenzie Greer
Michele Forman ’93 offers her UAB film students technical competency and ethical context.
Last year, ArtWeek featured “art in the dark” projections on Boston Common.
Photographs courtesy of ArtWeek
ArtWeek 2019 offers hundreds of events around Massachusetts
Carpenter Center: home to Visual and Environmental Studies, soon to be Art, Film, and Visual Studies—a better name for the work done there
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Renaming Visual and Environmental Studies to signal a clearer focus on making art and film
Unite or Perish, Chicago (1968), by John Simmons
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Eighteen photographers capture the 1930s through the 1980s.
Robert Humphreville, a frequent Harvard Film Archive accompanist, says he’s mostly asked to play comedies, especially from “the big three”: Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, and Buster Keaton. (A scene from Keaton’s Sherlock Jr. appears over his shoulder.)
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Three pianists making silent film sing
Wim Wenders speaking at Sanders Theatre on April 2
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Wim Wenders delivers the final installment in the 2018 Norton Lectures on Cinema.
Agnès Varda
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Agnès Varda delivered the second installment of this year’s Norton Lectures on Cinema.